Improvement in water-proof mittens for divers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK I. MERYMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

. Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,665, dated August 25, 1863. Y

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK I. MERY MAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suf` folk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improved Water-Proof Mitten for Submarine Divers and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawing, which is an external view of the said mitten.

My invention consists of a new or improved manufacture of water-proof mitten made with an elastic sleeve or extension at the wrist to fit so closely about the arm at and above the Wrist as to prevent water from being forced into the mitten while worn by a diver, though he may be submerged in water.

1t frequently happens that adiver, while nnder 'Water and incased in a water-proof armor 0r divin g-dress intiated by or supplied with air by means of an air-torcingvpump, suffers great inconvenience from his hands becoming chilled by exposure to the rtvater, and. furthermore, when his hands may be wet theybecome more or less tender and are easily injured by the things required to be handled by the diver while in the water, and this even when they may be incased in glooves such as divers nsu. ally wear. With my improved mitten the Water Will be entirely prevented from gaining access to the hand when incased by it, as the sleeve or elastic extension ot' the wrist of the glove is calculated to extend up the arm of the diver so far and fit to it so closely that when the sleeve of the divers armor is fastened and strapped to the sleefe or extension of the wrist of the glove or mitten the Water will be completely excluded from such glove or mitten. y

In the drawing, A denotes the hand-case of the mitten, while B is the thumb-case, the wrist part being shown at a and the Whole being waterproof'. From the said part a a taperin g elastic tube or short sleeve, C, extends, as shown in the drawing, and is also to be water-proof and readily expansible to such an extent as not only to enable a diver to intro duce his hand into it and into the mitten, but that such sleeve shall afterward so contract about that portion of the arm which is immediately above the wrist as to prevent tl e ingress of Water into the mitten When it and the arm are submerged.

I am aware that mittens or gloves have been made water-proof. I am also aware that knit or Woven mittens or gloves not water-proof, have been made elastic at the wrist. Therefore I do not claim a mitten or glove so made; but

What I do claim as my invention is- The improved manufacture of water-proof mitten as made with the waterproof and elastic sleeve or wrist extension C to so closeon and t to the arm ot' a diver as to prevent water from gaining access to the interior of the said mitten or glove While being Worn and submerged.

FREDERICK I. MERYMAN. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

